Word: ranking
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...lead article in last week's issue of The Independent [April 29, 1993] confirmed what many people already suspected: Asian and white students at Harvard are disproportionately distributed at the high end of the grade rank scale; Blacks and Latinos generally score lower. More surprising was the fact that none of the "experts" interviewed for the article mentioned Harvard's preferential admissions policy as a possible explanation for the resulting discrepancies. This glaring omission should make us reconsider our settled notions of diversity and racial equality at Harvard...
Another reason Hoyte gave for Harvard's low rank was the inclusion of professional schools in the University tallies. Not all institutions have these schools, and their percentages look better for that reason, he said...
...Medical School ranked 12th of 13 by percentage of tenured women and had the same rank in percentage of tenured minorities in this year's survey. Among non-tenured faculty, the Medical School has the lowest percentage of female faculty and ranks ninth of 13 in the percentage of minorities...
According to Robert H. Scott, Harvard's vice president for finance, the University's rank in the NEBHE does not indicate a decline in the quality of its research...
...Scott maintained that Harvard's rank "is a cause for concern, not alarm. It's not where we are on the list that matters, but whether we can win sources of support for projects faculty members want...